Major gaming studio, responsible for World of Warcraft and the Warcraft franchise, Diablo III and the Diablo franchise, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch.
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Massively Overthinking: How long should it take MMO players to get to ‘endgame’?
With Throne & Liberty's latest global underway, I want to point back to something Amazon said about the test for our Massively Overthinking discussion...
Overwatch 2 talks up ‘wide group’ matchmaking and new leaver penalties, Warcraft Rumble fixes bugs
While Overwatch 2 and Warcraft Rumble don't have any overlap in terms of gameplay styles, they both have gotten some recent headlines that are...
World of Warcraft previews the upcoming Mists of Pandaria Remix in patch 10.2.7
Apparently, the plan for World of Warcraft's content leading up to The War Within is to just make you play classic flashbacks whether you...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Rumor: Bungie is (or at least was?) supposedly working on Destiny 3
According to reporting on multiple websites this morning, Bungie wasn't just blowing hot air during yesterday's The Final Shape stream when the studio's Luke...
Overwatch 2 outlines S10 changes for Wrecking Ball, Venture, Tracer, and more
Overwatch 2's latest dev blog is unsurprisingly all about Venture, the new geotech hero who happens to be nonbinary. Players got to run with...
World of Warcraft brings the Cataclysm Classic pre-expansion patch on April 30
Do you remember back in the day when you were very excited to have Deathwing blow up a good chunk of World of Warcraft?...
NetEase and Blizzard ink deal to revive World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, and Diablo IV in China
(As of late tonight, Blizzard has officially confirmed the rumors. Our original post follows, and we've updated with the official news at the end.)
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Blizzard starts hiring high-level positions for a new mystery game
Just because Blizzard has canceled quite a few promising projects over the years and suffered shocking layoffs in 2024 doesn't mean that the studio...
Massively Overthinking: Would you pay for a Guild Wars 1 revival?
WoodenPotatoes had a fun video this past weekend about Classic Guild Wars 1, and I fully admit I clicked on it just to hear...
Hearthstone launches co-op Battlegrounds Duos with April 16’s season 7
Blizzard has taken the stress-free packaging off its new Hearthstone toy, announcing the impending launch of Battlegrounds Duos, which the team first previewed at...
Blizzard’s John Hight on using AI to support World of Warcraft’s artists, not replace them
Franchise director John Hight might have spent some of his GDC time last month drawing a mystery line for World of Warcraft subscriber numbers,...
WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery moves into Phase 3 today with new Sunken Temple raid
The third phase of WoW Classic's Season of Discovery goes live this afternoon, bringing with it yet another endgame shift and evolving scavenger hunt....
Global Chat: What should we be thinking about Guild Wars 3?
The surprising (and not surprising) news that ArenaNet has the go-ahead from NCsoft to develop Guild Wars 3 sent ripples of interest, confusion, and...
The Daily Grind: Are you waiting on WoW The War Within at this point?
Unless you've been playing World of Warcraft fairly faithfully during the Dragonflight expansion, you're probably buried in content and objectives if you've tried to...
Tarisland’s latest beta preview video showcases the male Paladin class
The fact that Tencent's World of Warcraft-lookalike Tarisland has a Paladin class isn't a surprise, both because of the source material and because Tarisland...
World of Warcraft lead dev asks for opinions on whether to merge two US PvP realms
If you're a PvPing player in World of Warcraft - specifically someone who's on the Faerlina or Benediction servers - then you'll probably want...
April Fools’ Day 2024 events and gags from around the MMORPG world
Welcome to weird MMORPG game mode day! I mean, April Fools' Day - not that we're sorry a lot of the "pranks" have become...
LOTRO Legendarium: Middle-earth’s world integrity is an endangered species in MMOs
Back in 2018, Steven Spielberg adapted the popular novel Ready Player One into a film. It seemed like a great pairing: The master director...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs repurpose their old content more often?
World of Warcraft certainly provoked the raising of many, many eyebrows last week when it announced that its secret March patch ended up being...
